West Virginia Teacher Strike Reaches 7 Days Without Classes

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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia public school students are in limbo, with their classrooms closed for a seventh straight class day as teachers fight for pay raises.
West Virginia’s Senate Republican majority refused Thursday to take up House-passed legislation to grant teachers and service personnel a 5 percent pay raise. Outside the Senate chamber, hundreds protesting teacher pay rates among the lowest in the nation chanted, “Pass that